 Their sighs, lamentations and loud wailingsresounded through the starless air,so that at first it made me weep;Strange utterances, horrible pronouncements,words of pain, tones of anger,voices shrill and faint, and beating hands,all went to make a tumult that will whirlforever through that turbid, timeless air,like sand that eddies when a whirlwind swirls. Canto III, lines 22-30.